Natural SEO SEM Email Glossary
Email stands for Electronic Mail. It is probably the most common form of communication on the Web.
Forums, Chat Rooms and Social Media websites are growing in popularity with the Web 2.0 growth. But email remains as an everyday informal method of keeping in touch with your friends, customers and potential customers. In fact, email marketing is often the primary form of marketing that many ecommerce businesses make.
So it is important that a general understanding be gained about email. It could present a great opportunity for you to supplement your Natural SEO and Natural SEM effort.
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Email Glossary
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A set of 128 alphanumeric and special control characters used for computer storing and text printing. Used by HTML in transmitting data over the web. It is a 7-bit code.
Attachment
A file that is sent along with an email message.
Auto Responder
An automated program that acknowledges receipt of an email and responds to the sender letting them know the email was received.
Auto-Parser
An automated program that extracts information from registration form fields, detects errors or incomplete information, and submits complete and correct data to a database.
Bacterium
A program that spreads itself on the Internet by e-mailing a copy of itself to e-mail addresses found on a user's hard drive. This is done without the knowledge or permission of the user or subsequent recipients. Often this type of program does not try to cause any damage to user's system, but rather attempts to overload the e-mail distribution system.
Bayesian Filter
A technique for identifying incoming email spam by analyzing the words and character strings in the entire content of the message, not just in the subject line or header. A Bayesian Filter will learn to identify spam the more it analyzes the incoming email.
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Natural SEO SEM hopes that you find this Email Terms Glossary useful in understanding the Internet - and your place in it.